Intensifying US-China trade war piles pressure on Australia to pick a side


It’s a headache-inducing decision that’s been looming over Canberra for many years, but as an intensifying trade war between the US and China sends shockwaves through the global economy, Australia may soon have to make its mind up.

On one side there’s our biggest trading partner China, helping us rack up more than 28 years of economic growth and stopping us falling victim to the Global Financial Crisis that caused so much despair across Europe and the US in 2008.

On the other there’s Donald Trump’s United States, which is still the world’s biggest superpower — and to whom we share close ties over culture, language and politics.

More importantly, they’re also our biggest security ally in an uncertain world. Australia has fought alongside the US in all of its major military activities in the past century.

Professor John Mearsheimer — author of five books and an influential professor at the University of Chicago — says Australia will have no choice but to ultimately choose United States over China.

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Professor John Mearsheimer says Australia will have no choice but to side with the US. Picture: CiS